Movies that were better than the Books

[Litmaster]

You guys are friggin crazy... movies SUCK! They always have to cut corners and leave stuff out in order to condense the whole story.

Saying that movies are better than books is like saying that watching highlights of a football game is better than watching the game itself.


Also, the visual nature of movies automatically means that they'll put more emphasis on action scenes where something is 'happening' rather than on more subtle character development and underlying tension. The result is that damn near half of a 3 hour movie is taken up by bullshit car chases and fight scenes, where this may not be nearly so emphasized in the book version. They basically steamroll all the nuance in favor of flashy sensationalism.


Besides, in a movie you cannot get inside the head of a character like the way you can in a book. It's a total weakness of the visual medium.